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Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 6, 2023)

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the supernatural horror movie The Exorcist: Believer co-written and directed by David Gordon Green and starring Leslie Odom, Jr., Jennifer Nettles, Ann Dowd, Norbert Leo Butz, Olivia Marcus, Lidya Jewett, and Ellen Burstyn. The film’s original music is composed by David Wingo (Mud, Take Shelter, Barry, The Report, Midnight Special, Loving) and Amman Abbasi (Dayveon). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Universal Pictures release.

Opening semi-wide in several hundred theaters is the romantic comedy She Came to Me written and directed by Rebecca Miller and starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Anne Hathaway, Joanna Kulig and Brian d’Arcy James. Bryce Dessner (Cyrano, The Two Popes, Bardo, A Good Person, The Kitchen, Irresistible) has composed the film’s original score. Warner Classics has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as an original score by Bruce Springsteen last week. Click here for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Vertical Entertainment.

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Oliver Coates, Park Jiha & Agnes Obel Scoring Garth Davis’ ‘Foe’

Oliver Coates (Aftersun, The Stranger, Significant Other), Korean composer Park Jiha and singer/songwriter Agnes Obel have provided the original score for the new sci-fi thriller Foe. The film is directed by Garth Davis (Lion, Mary Magdalene) and stars Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Iain Reid and follows a married couple living on a secluded piece of land whose quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal.

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Oliver Coates Scoring Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City’

Oliver Coates (Aftersun, The Stranger, Significant Other) has composed the original music for the upcoming documentary Occupied City. The film directed and produced by Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Shame, Widows) is informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945) written by Bianca Stigter and tells a story of life under Nazi occupation in Amsterdam during World War II in the early 1940s.

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‘Aftersun’ Soundtrack to Be Released

Lakeshore Records & Invada Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Aftersun. The album features the film’s original music composed by Oliver Coates (The Stranger, Significant Other). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 13 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Aftersun is written and directed by Charlotte Wells and stars Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio and Celia Rowlson-Hall. The movie follows a young girl who reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 21, 2022)

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the superhero movie Black Adam directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Quintessa Swindell, Marwan Kenzari and Pierce Brosnan. The film’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, The LEGO Batman Movie, His Dark Materials). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last Friday. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Also opening nationwide is the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise co-written and directed by Ol Parker and starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Lucas Bravo, Maxime Bouttier and Billie Lourd. Lorne Balfe has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last month when the movie was released overseas. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the Universal Pictures release.

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‘The Stranger’ Soundtrack Album Details

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Australian crime thriller The Stranger. The album features the film’s original music composed by Oliver Coates (Aftersun, Significant Other). The soundtrack will released digitally tomorrow, October 21 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The Stranger is written and directed by Thomas M. Wright and stars Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Cormac Wright, Jada Alberts, Steve Mouzakis, Fletcher Humphrys, Matthew Sunderland, Alan Dukes, Ewen Leslie and Gary Waddell. The movie revolves around an undercover cop who forms an intense, intimate relationship with a murder suspect while trying to earn his trust and elicit a confession.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 16, 2022)

Premiering on Tuesday, October 18, is the HBO original documentary Mama’s Boy directed by Laurent Bouzereau and produced by Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon, Steven Shareshian, Darryl Frank & Justin Falvey. The film’s original music is composed by Raphaelle Thibaut (Secrets of the Whales, Introducing, Selma Blair, Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History). The Amblin Television and Playtone production, which centers on the upbringing of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) and is based on his 2019 memoir Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas, will air on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.

Premiering on Wednesday, October 19, is the Australian thriller The Stranger directed by Thomas M. Wright and starring Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Jada Alberts, Cormac Wright, Steve Mouzakis and Matthew Sunderland. Oliver Coates (Aftersun, Significant Other) has composed the film’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score is in the works. The movie, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was released theatrically in Australia earlier this month and will be available to stream worldwide on Wednesday on Netflix.

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‘Significant Other’ Soundtrack Album Details

Invada Records & Paramount Music will release a soundtrack album for the Paramount+ original movie Significant Other. The album features the film’s original music composed by Oliver Coates (Aftersun, The Stranger). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, October 9 and will be available to stream on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Significant Other is written and directed by Dan Berk & Robert Olsen and stars Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy. The sci-fi thriller follows a young couple who take a remote backpacking trip through the Pacific Northwest, but things take a dark turn when they realize they may not be alone.

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